Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/čeľadь

This Proto-Slavic entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Proto-Slavic

Etymology

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Noun

*čeľadь f

1. household
2. (collectively) children (in South Slavic)
3. (collectively) servants (in West and East Slavic)

Declension

Declension of *čeľadь (i-stem)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*čeľadь	*čeľadi	*čeľadi
genitive	*čeľadi	*čeľadьju, *čeľaďu*	*čeľadьjь, *čeľadi*
dative	*čeľadi	*čeľadьma	*čeľadьmъ
accusative	*čeľadь	*čeľadi	*čeľadi
instrumental	*čeľadьjǫ, *čeľaďǫ*	*čeľadьma	*čeľadьmi
locative	*čeľadi	*čeľadьju, *čeľaďu*	*čeľadьxъ
vocative	*čeľadi	*čeľadi	*čeľadi

^* The second form occurs in languages that contract early across /j/ (e.g. Czech), while the first form occurs in languages that do not (e.g. Russian).

Derived terms

• *čeľadina (“female servant”)
• *čeľadinъ (“male servant”)
• *čeľadъka (“married woman”)
• *čeľadьnikъ (“married man”)
• *čeľadьnъ (“having children”)

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: челѧдь (čelędĭ)
    • Belarusian: чэ́лядзь (čéljadzʹ)
    • Russian: че́лядь (čéljadʹ)
    • Ukrainian: че́лядь (čéljadʹ)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:

    Old Cyrillic script: челꙗдь (čeljadĭ)

    Unspecified script:

  • Bulgarian: че́ляд (čéljad)
  • Macedonian: челад (čelad)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: че̏ља̑д

    Latin script: čȅljȃd

• West Slavic:
  • Czech: čeleď
  • Polish: czeladź
  • Slovak: čeľaď
  • Slovincian: čìe̯lȯʒ
  • Sorbian:
    • Lower Sorbian: čelaź
    • Upper Sorbian: čeledź
• → Hungarian: család

Further reading

• Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1977), “*čel'adь”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 04 (*čaběniti – *děľa), Moscow: Nauka, page 40
• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “че́лядь”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress